Better late than never, right??

Sorry for the gap in posting....I've started back to work and Greg just started his vacation/FMLA time so once I'm done with work we've been enjoying doing things with the kids and just being together as a family. We've been spending a lot of time just sitting on the front lawn and enjoying the cooler weather and playing together...

We've had a Home Depot project and lots of cuteness going on around here since the last post and a group of family and friends even headed out to San Diego to try out for our FAVORITE game show, Wipeout!!

So, let's go in order....

Two Saturdays ago Karyl, Freddie and I headed over to Home Depot for a project, only to discover that they were only a small part of a City Safety Fair in the Costco parking lot. It was awesome!! As we were pulling up they had a Emergency Rescue helicopter land right in the middle of the parking lot. Karyl thought it was awesome, and I have to admit that even I got a little giddy seeing it!!

Then she made her project, which was a firestation coin bank....

And then we walked around the booths for a while where Karyl learned to "Stop, Drop and Roll" and even got a neat fire hat for demonstrating it!!

After walking around for a while we headed home (the boys had requested chicken bakes from Costco since we were so close...).


Then, this past Saturday Greg, two of his sisters and our friends Mele and Misi headed down to some obscure restaurant in San Diego to audition for Wipeout (I would have loved to have gone but someone has to watch the kids, right?? I figure next year I'll get to go while those who got on the show stay home!!). They had a BLAST. They left super early in the morning, only to be the first ones there in line but they had lots of fun and laughed so much they came home with sore face muscles!!

And yes, some of them did make it past the initial interviews and there is a possibility that 3 of the 5 that went are going to be on the show!! We're not going to ruin the surprise on here, but if they do get on we will let you know what nights to watch and you can see for yourselves who made the cut!!

That seems like a good summary of the past week or so. Freddie is doing AWESOME...we can't believe it's been only 3-1/2 weeks since his surgery. You'd NEVER guess this guy had just been put through the ringer, he is happy and healthy and has started talking!! Yep, he was saying Da-Da, but now even that is more distinct when he says it and he can say Karyl...yeah, that's right, no Ma-Ma but Daddy and Karyl have earned a top spot in his newly forming vocabulary!! No crawling yet, but he does have his 2 bottom teeth (yay!!) and is getting closer and closer to crawling every day!!

Karyl is growing right before our eyes too...since the cooler weather is upon us we have started pulling out the jeans and long sleeve shirts from last year (she has lots of them that she got for her 2nd birthday) and lots of that stuff was kind of big back then....All the pants that were too long are the perfect length now (she's grown at least 3 inches) but they are still too big around the middle...this girl is a tall and skinny beauty!! She has also grown like 2 shoe sizes since then, but with her momma having such large feet we were kind of expecting that!! She turns 3 in six days and we can't wait to see what this new age brings us (other than the already apparent "Princess" attitude and the ability to negotiate effectively...well, with Grandpa at least).

Also, tomorrow Greg and I are celebrating our 4th Wedding Anniversary...can you believe how fast the time flies??